- From: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2011 08:21:32 -0700
- To: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>
- Cc: Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>, HTML WG LIST <public-html@w3.org>
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 4:18 PM, Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com> wrote: > I am told that right now browsers turn the html snippet that > aria-describedby points to into plain text before giving it to > accessibiltiy APIs and thus screen readers cannot e.g. change their > accent to a different content language, or point out that there's a > url to another resource. > > Thus, I suggest your change proposal should also include that browsers > need to expose the markup of the html snippet(s) that aria-describedby > points to to accessibility APIs. That conflicts with the information I'm getting from the Firefox accessibility team. At least for non-hidden content Firefox should be fully exposed including all its html semantics to AT users. In any case, ARIA is already requiring what you're asking for. This is why I was suggesting that the HTML spec simply points this fact out while referring to the ARIA spec. / Jonas
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